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Tuesday, 2 June 2015

We lack power for now to display Buhari, Osinbajo’s assets - CCB

Those who asking the new president and his deputy to publicly declare
their asset will have to wait a bit longer as the Code of Conduct
Bureau, CCB, which keeps custody of the assets declared by the two
leaders, says it lacks the power to make them public for now.

Chairman of the CCB, Mr. Sam Sada, who spoke exclusively to Vanguard
through his Special Assistant, Mr. Gwimi Sebastian Peter, said only the
National Assembly is vested with the powers to decide the terms and
conditions under which such documents could be made public.

The chairman said even though the Constitution of Nigerian made it clear
that the agency should make available to the citizens the assets
declared by public officials, the same law vested the National Assembly
with the power to decide the terms and conditions for making such
materials public.

Sada explained that the CCB was ready to comply with the terms and
conditions specified by the National Assembly on the matter but would
only do so once the law was amended.
He said:

“While the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) and
the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act give the bureau powers to
receive assets declarations, verify, examine, keep in custody and
enforce compliance when there is a breach, the responsibility of
determining how and on what terms asset declarations will be made
accessible to the public was left to the National Assembly.
“Several National Assemblies have come and gone since the establishment
of the CCB without addressing the matter.”